《美国国家科学院院刊》刊登一项新研究发现,体重超标或肥胖会加速肝脏衰老进程。这一发现有助于解释肥胖与肝癌和胰岛素抵抗等疾病之间的关联性。美国加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生学院人类遗传学和生物统计学教授史蒂夫·霍瓦特及其同事对包括130多个肝脏组织的1190个人体组织样本进行了分析。结果发现,身体质量指数(BMI,身高体重比)每增加10个单位,“肝脏 A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that overweight or obesity accelerated liver aging. This finding helps explain the link between obesity and diseases such as liver cancer and insulin resistance. Steve Horvat, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues analyzed 1190 human tissue samples from more than 130 liver tissues. The results showed that body mass index (BMI, height to weight ratio) for each additional 10 units, ”liver